vindictive - Story 165714 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice felt heavy in his hand, a lead weight. His heart hammered in his chest. His gaze went straight to the door, the flimsy particle board door that was all that stood between him and the street. He felt a surge of adrenaline.

He spent the morning carefully removing all the light bulbs, including those in the hallway. He then took the batteries out of the smoke detectors.

After that, he went to the storage room and took his time. He didn't rush. He considered his actions and carefully packed up his belongings. He planned to leave nothing behind.

Emotion: vindictive

Cluster: Defiance / Spite

PC1 (Valence): 2.55 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 4.22

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion vindictive. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 vindictive stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the vindictive emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the vindictive vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.878
`la`	0.516
`😈`	0.509
`l`	0.504
`diplom`	0.476

Suppressed:

`own`	-1.035
`此刻`	-0.573
`గుర్త`	-0.532
`熟悉的`	-0.526
`ness`	-0.509